Suzanne Slesin

Suzanne Slesin has been involved in the field of home design as an international journalist since the 1970s. She has been Managing Editor of Industrial Design magazine, Director of Communications and Advertising Manager at Knoll International, an editor and writer at New York and Esquire magazines, and for 17 years, an editor and reporter for the Home Section of the New York Times. In 1995, she became the Design Editor of the new House & Garden, then Editor-in-Chief of HomeStyle, and in 2003, the Editor of O at Home, an Oprah magazine. Slesin has co-authored over 20 books on design beginning with High-Tech: The Industrial Style and Source Book for the Home (with Joan Kron in 1978) and was the co-author, starting in 1982, of the innovative and trend-setting Style Books that include French Style, English Style, Caribbean Style, and Japanese Style, all published by Clarkson Potter, a division of Random House.

In 2002, Slesin founded Pointed Leaf Press, (www.pointedleafpress.com) to publish high quality, photography-driven monographs based on personalities in the worlds of design, architecture, and fashion. Titles include Over the Top: Helena Rubinstein, Extraordinary Style, Beauty, Art, Fashion, and Design and Italy of my Dreams: The Story of an American Designer’s Real Life Passion for Italian Style, by Matthew White. This year, among other titles, Pointed Leaf Press will release Outside the Box by David Scott; and Tino Zervudachi: A Portfolio.